U.S. President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley plan to sit down for a beer on Thursday.
The three men, surrounded by their families, will raise their glasses at the picnic table outside the Oval Office, weather permitting, CBS reports.
Asked if there would be pretzel or [...]
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World awaits Obama’s choice in high profile beer sitdown
July 29th, 2009 |
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Kevin Grandia: Climate Crock of the Week: What’s Up with Anthony Watts [take 2]
July 29th, 2009 |
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Okay, let’s try this again. Peter Sinclair producer of the well-known “Climate Crock of the Week” video series, posted a video debunking weatherman Anthony Watts…
Michelle Schweiger Schecter: The Spurn Of The Native
July 27th, 2009 |
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Did you catch Liz Cheney on Larry live?/Allowing the birthers’ claims to thrive/Carville, quite exasperated on Mr. King/Telling us this is, indeed, a very “nutty thing”.
Daniel Krotz: On The Collecting of Books
July 27th, 2009 |
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The single piece of advice I give to a prospective collector is that if a book makes you cry, collect it. I suppose that’s why I own nine copies of The Sun Also Rises.
Bill Mann: CNN’s Lou Dobbs Joins Glenn Beck’s Tinfoil-Hat Brigade
July 23rd, 2009 |
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Glenn Beck must be looking over his shoulder these days. CNN’s well-tailored droneologist and resident crackpot, Lou Dobbs, has just joined cable’s tinfoil-hat crowd…
Bob Cesca: Crazy Wingnut Healthcare Attacks Exposed
July 22nd, 2009 |
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The other day, I overheard a random “Republican analyst” on MSNBC’s The Ed Show suggest that the public option should never be implemented because of…
Kerry Trueman: Light A Fire Under Your Council Member To Curb NYC’s Carbon “Foodprint”
July 21st, 2009 |
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We examine how to conserve resources, improve our aging infrastructure, and create a more sustainable city.
Peter Dreier: GOP Liars on Health Costs
July 21st, 2009 |
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“Democrats’ government-run plan will make health care more costly than ever,” Ohio Representative John Boehner, the House Republican leader, told the Wall Street Journal…
Germany remembers Hitler plotters
July 20th, 2009 |
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Germany has marked the 65th anniversary of the failed attempt by a group of officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and drive the Nazis from power.
The 20 July Plot saw Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg plant a bomb under a table inside the "Wolf’s Lair", Hitler’s command post in East Prussia.
But through a series of lucky circumstances Hitler was only slightly hurt, and the conspiracy was exposed.
The assassination attempt is one of the proudest traditions of the German army.
During a ceremony in Berlin on Monday, hundreds of young recruits to the force took their ceremonial oath to a democratic Germany.
Memorial
For many Germans, Von Stauffenberg is a hero – one of the few officers who chose to follow his conscience rather than orders, says the BBC’s Oliver Berlau.
Click to see where the bomb was planted and who was hurtThe plot in which he participated was the closest Hitler’s opponents within the German armed forces ever got to killing him.
The attempted coup, which would have seen the establishment of a conservative military regime in Germany which was willing to negotiate an honourable peace, was led by senior military leaders like Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and Gen Ludwig Beck.
As had been planned, Von Stauffenberg placed a briefcase containing explosives under the table next to Hitler inside the Wolf’s Lair. After he left the building, he heard the bomb explode and assumed the German dictator was dead.
But an officer had moved the briefcase behind a sturdy leg of the table, and Hitler suffered only minor burns and concussion.
Unaware, Von Stauffenberg flew to Berlin to join Von Witzleben and Beck and to take over using the German Home Army. However, they had hesitated and failed to take over the communications network.
Once it became known that Hitler was still alive, the plot crumbled.
Von Stauffenberg and several of his co-conspirators were shot the same night in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock, a building in Berlin which is still part of the defence ministry and the site of a memorial.
Dozens of others were later humiliated in a show trial and executed, hanged with piano wire from meat-hooks. Their deaths were filmed and shown to senior members of the Nazi Party and the armed forces.
THE 20 JULY PLOT| 1. Adolf Hitler 2. Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel 3. Gen Alfred von Jodl 4. Gen Walter Warlimont 5. Franz von Sonnleithner 6. Maj Herbert Buchs 7. Stenographer Heinz Buchholz 8. Lt Gen Hermann Fegelein 9.Col Nikolaus von Below 10. Rear Adm Hans-Erich Voss 11. Otto Gunsche, Hitler’s adjutant 12. Gen Walter Scherff (injured) 13. Gen Ernst John von Freyend 14. Capt Heinz Assman (injured) |
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15. Stenographer Heinrich Berger (killed) 16. Rear Adm Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer (injured) 17. Gen Walther Buhle 18. Lt Col Heinrich Borgmann (injured) 19. Gen Rudolf Schmundt (killed) 20. Lt Col Heinz Waizenegger 21. Gen Karl Bodenschatz (injured) 22. Col Heinz Brandt (killed) 23. Gen Gunther Korten (killed) 24. Col Claus von Stauffenberg 25. Gen Adolf Heusinger (injured) |
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Paul Slansky: This Preposterous Week in Review: Bachmann, Beck, Brooks, And More!
July 17th, 2009 |
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Here’s my look at this wild week: An index of people, places, things and why you should care about them.
Matthew Filipowicz: Bill O’Reilly Sues Glenn Beck For Meltdown Infringement
July 17th, 2009 |
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As you may have heard, yesterday right wing talk show host Glenn Beck was pushed both to, and over, the edge by a caller on…
Beck: Modern Guilt Acoustic More VU Covers & Waits Interview
July 14th, 2009 |
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Beck Does Modern Guilt Acoustic, Continues Record Club with More VU Covers
And Launches “Irrelevant Topics” Interview Series with Tom Waits
Modern Guilt was released one year ago this week! For the occasion Beck is putting up acoustic versions of the entire album recorded earlier this year after returning from the Japan tour (under severe jet lag). Tracks will be released weekly starting with this rendition of “Orphans.” There will be limited EP of four tracks from the session available soon. Beck will also be putting up all the promotional videos from the album this week in the new section of his website, Videotheque.
Modern Guilt Acoustic “Orphans” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Beck has also continued his Record Club project with several more tracks off The Velvet Underground and Nico:
“Venus In Furs”:
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Venus In Furs” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
“Femme Fatale”:
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico “Femme Fatale” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
“Waiting for My Man”:
Record Club: Velvet Underground & Nico ‘Waiting for My Man’ from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
And finally, Beck has begun another new project for his website, Irrelevant Topics, featuring an interview with Tom Waits.
Tom Waits x Beck Hansen : Pt. 1
Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations, the legendary musician and performer, Tom Waits agreed lend an hour of his time to talk about anything and nothing in particular. Here is Pt. 1 of that conversation.
Bill Mann: Larry Kudlow — CNBC’s Answer to Glenn Beck
July 14th, 2009 |
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Every cable news network these days, it seems, wants to have a resident crackpot to draw an audience of gawkers, the masses H.L. Mencken…
Stanton Peele: Health Care Reform to Destruction
July 11th, 2009 |
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Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else — insurance companies, employers, the government — will pay for it.